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Length-Weight Relationship and Growth of a Marine Gastropod Mollusk, Hemifusus ternatanus (Gmelin) (Family: Melongenidae)

Length-Weight Relationship and Growth of a Marine Gastropod Mollusk, Hemifusus ternatanus (Gmelin) (Family: Melongenidae)

Shouguo Yang1, Fen Cheng1, Xiangyu Wu1, YiXuan Xing1, ZhiFeng Gu2 and Xianming Tang1,*

1Hainan Academy of Ocean and Fisheries Sciences, Haikou 571126, China
2Ocean College, Hainan University, 58 Renmin Avenue, Haikou 570228, Hainan, PR China

*      Corresponding author: hn.tangxm@aliyun.com

 

ABSTRACT

Length-weight relationship and growth of a marine gastropod mollusk, Hemifusus ternatanus was studied for 36 months under artificial condition. The total shell length (SL), shell width (SW) and total weight (TW) were measured for eight times throughout the experimental period. The length-weight relationship can be expressed as Wt = 0.0734×SL2.7817 (R2 = 0.9924) and width-weight can be expressed as Wt = 0.5763×SW3.036 (R2 = 0.974). The correlation coefficients between morphometric traits and total weight reached the significant level. With the increasing of animal age, the growth of total shell length, width and weight significantly increased, while the growth rate decreased with the increasing of animal age. Results from the present study provide the first biological reference to H. ternatanus and are useful for assessing the growth and resource assessment of H. ternatanus.

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Pakistan Journal of Zoology

October

Pakistan J. Zool., Vol. 56, Iss. 5, pp. 2001-2500

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